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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 3
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY NEWS
GA Power honors Dr.
King with Volunteer Day
at West Broad YMC A
tremendous headway.”
Georgia Power began
its tradition of honoring Dr.
King in 2000. For the com
pany and its employees it is
a day to turn community
concerns into citizen action.
The tradition is carried on
throughout the state with
hundreds of volunteers par-
See Volunteer Day, page 7
Annual GHS Essay Contest Focuses on
Savannah in the Civil Rights Movement
The Georgia Historical
Society announces the 2009
Black History Month Essay
and Public Speaking Contest.
Open to all local middle and
high school students, the con
test highlights topics in
African-American history
while allowing students to
gain skills in historical
research and public speaking.
The 2009 contest is being
held in community partner
ship with the Telfair Museum
of Art, featuring Freedom's
March - a Frederick Baldwin
photography exhibit docu
menting the civil rights
movement in Savannah on
display at the Jepson Center
for the Arts September 24,
2008 -January 11, 2009.
Students are asked to
submit a 500-word essay
focusing on either a single
personality associated with
the civil rights movement in
Savannah, or a specific aspect
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tradition of honoring Dr.
King's legacy began in 2000
On January 19, 2009,
also known as Dr. Martin
Luther King Day, volunteers
from Georgia Power in
Savannah will be continuing
the tradition of 'taking a day
on, not off “Our workers,
retirees, and their friends
and family members join us
each year to honor Dr. King
by giving back to our local
community,” says Chan
Dixon, Area Sales Executive
for Georgia Power
This year the group has
selected the West Broad
Street YMCA for its volun
teer efforts. “We couldn't be
more honored and more
thrilled,” offers Peter
Doliber, Executive Director.
“We are in the process of
renovating our facility and
this really helps us make
Martin Luther King, Ir.
Observance Day Association,tnc. 2004 Calendar of Rvents
January IS, 2001
“Crtywide Memorial Worship-Service
JcvtHVille RaplHL Chinch Of PAW. hie
Speaker Dr. fCeiinetli (" Doe, Paslor
Rdhesris tfvisttm Fellowship
5:00 PM
January IS, 200 11
Dr. Marlin l.ulliur King. Jr Parade
10-00 AM
January 22, 2001
Jazz Requiem
Unitarian Unitarian ('Ininch
”:00 PM
January 21, 200^
Business Conrmmity Break (ith
Savannah International Trade ft Convention Collet
Speaker Dr Julia Hare
Author. Rehttionship Fs|ierl
9:20 AM ■ $30 00
January 24,20D ( >
Taletn Explosion i Ages 0*l9j
Jenkins High Sohool Audiionuiii
4:00 - 0:00 PM.
January 20. 200^
Annual Compel Fesl
Plate: Second African Boptitt Church
7:00 RM
January 3 ].*00S
Kellivalien ,nui Career Fair
West ntoad Srieet YMCA - May Streel
10:00 AM - 2-00 PM
February H, 2009
Unity Luncheon
12:00 PM
Savannah lntemrtioriil Trade ft Cinvention
Comer
Spisiker Mrs Undu PnnpEu-Eivans, l-'ounder
Journey To Wholeness Conference
12:00 PM - $35.00
March 27, 2001
Freedom Rail
Ralph Mark Gilbert C R Musenm Annex
3 00 PM - Rand: TEA
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April -4.2009
Scholarship Program
7:00 PM ■ Place TRA
October 13.2009
Giveback Proa mm
Wes< Rroad Sireer YMCA
n:0D PM
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"ZOO'i Brochures will bi distributed In ih;
churches, businesses. YMCA, elc
of the movement such as stu
dent involvement, school inte
gration, or the role of local
churches. Students are
encouraged to visit the
Freedom's March exhibit at
the Jepson Center for inspira
tion in creating these histori
cal essays.
The contest is intended
to encourage historical
research and expose students
to the rich local resources
available on this subject.
Essays should be the result of
See Essay Contest, page 9
There upon a Bough of Hope and Audacity
(In Honor of the Inauguration of the 44th President of the USA)
Songbird of speckled feathers and new millennium eyes,
you trill notes of democratic vistas heavy with light.
Chords of miraculous notions enrich your blessed voice
with power to sing dreams into deeds well done.
Above your head Sallie Hemings' children laugh rainbows.
You are neither Christ nor King nor Lincoln.
But what you are is willing, capable, and sincere,
there upon a bough of hope and audacity
as branded by history as any have ever been.
Knights of global tables toast the lyrics of your vision.
A grand son of two continents, your heart marches
to the glorious world beat of universal drummers,
and your American dream dutifully follows: one step
for peace, another for justice, two more for strength.
Harriet Tubman's tears splash prayers for your success.
From where you perch, the trade winds of destiny
lift your songs like leaves of silken prophecies,
scattering the soft true gold of their melodies and joy:
to their rhythm a world sways, hums, and dares to believe.
by Aberjhani
© 1 January, 2009
author of The American Poet Who Went Home Again
and co-author of ELEMENTAL. The Power of Illuminated Love
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